Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:16:56 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Microsoft (was Re: equal pay)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

> sgs at aginc.net 04/04/02 04:17PM
>
>"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
>
>> I'm utterly baffled by Microsoft's success.  Back in the late 70s I
>> wrongly predicted that the company had no future.
>
>The name of the game is Marketing.  Microsoft and Bill Gates are
>probably the best marketers in history.
>
>Our current time will probably not be known as the "age of computers"
>any more than we refer to post- Gutenberg Europe as "the age of movable
>type".  Computers are already starting to fade into the background in
>kitchen appliances, TVs, etc.
>
>Rather, we'll be known as "the age of marketing".  The symbol that we'll
>leave the future is the Pet Rock.

Nah. . . the Chia Pet . . .

mjw

>
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>Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
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